Jeeyoung Kim
Head Of Engineering at Exa
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeeyoung Kim is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend and infrastructure systems from startups to major fintech and payments platforms. Currently Head of Engineering at Exa after founding roles at depthfirst and early senior leadership at Plaid and Square, she combines hands-on systems design with team-building and incident leadership. Her background spans founding a data-visualization startup, early Google internship experience, and multiple IC/manager hats that sharpen her ability to move between deep technical work and organizational strategy. Based in San Francisco and trained in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, she brings a strong analytical foundation to pragmatic engineering decisions. Notably, she has repeatedly bridged startup scrappiness with production-grade reliability in high-throughput environments, making her adept at both rapid iteration and long-term platform stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Computer Science Pure Mathematics, Undergraduate Computer Science Pure Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, Korean
Github Skills (80)
python-development9
monitoring9
scheduler9
java-bindings9
python9
nyc9
automation9
machine-learning9
time-series9
plaid9
go9
prometheus9
kite9
atomic9
graphing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jeeyoungk/exercise
Jun 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:190 commits, 2 PRs, 148 pushes in 3 years 2 months
javascriptlanguagesprogramming-exercisejavaprogramming-language
jeeyoungk/resume
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:66 commits, 6 PRs, 70 pushes in 7 years 11 months
reactkim
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